St.-Anna-Hof (Vienna)

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St. Anna Court and Anna Church

The St. Anne's Court (also: Annahof ) is a building in the first Viennese district, Inner City , between the Annagasse 3 and Johannesgasse 4, immediately adjacent to the Church of St. Anna . The St. Anna Hof has a long history as a restaurant and event venue.

history

prehistory

In the old Annahof there was a Jesuit monastery since 1628 , the novitiate of the order in St. Anna. In the 18th century it was the home of the St. Anna normal school, which Franz Schubert and Franz Grillparzer also attended. There was an inn in the basement. In 1786 the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna moved to the St. Anna building. Public art exhibitions were held there.

On March 1, 1840, a Biedermeier adventure world opened in the basement of the St. Anna Monastery (entrance from Johannesgasse 4), the New Elysium . The restaurant, programmatically named as an “underground walk through the world”, became one of the main attractions of pre-March Vienna.

In 1854 the operator, Josef Daum, died of cholera. His son initially continued the establishment, but had to close it after a sharp decline in success in 1864 (according to another representation in 1857). From the 1920s, the premises in Johannesgasse were used as a theater; the Metro cinema is currently located here .

Current construction, from 1894

In 1894 the Annahof was rebuilt by the architects Fellner and Helmer . At the time, the duo had specialized in theaters in Europe. In Vienna, they built the Konzerthaus , the Akademietheater , the Ronacher , the front building to the Wienzeile of the Theater an der Wien and the Volkstheater . They were commissioned by Viktor Silberer , a pioneer in Austrian aviation.

The Tabarin establishment was integrated into the St.-Anna-Hof as a multi-storey revue theater . It was a magnificent ballroom based on the Parisian model. In 1910, the former 1,000 square meter ballroom was halved by inserting a concrete ceiling between floors and the basement was converted into a theater for cabaret with tables in the parquet and boxes raised on the sides. In 1910 the Max & Moritz Theater was opened in these rooms by the Wiener Ballhausgesellschaft and directed by Ferdinand Grünecker and Ludwig Hirschfeld. The still unknown Hans Moser performed at Max & Moritz in 1911 . Not very successfully, it was closed after around three years.

Interwar period

After the theater was reopened by Heinrich Eisenbach's ensemble, the name Max & Moritz soon became established . The Eisenbach Ensemble was permanently located in Annagasse from the 1915/1916 to 1924 season.

In the house at Annagasse 3, two halls could be used: the upper one as a dance hall, the lower one as a "beer tavern" and a performance room. The latter was designed for 600 people in the planning phase. In order to create appropriate conditions, a lecture podium with orchestra pit, boxes and cloakrooms were built before the opening. The final number of seats was around 400. Even after the war, the Max & Moritz was a stage that defined itself as Jewish and used Jewish as a code for comic effects.

Photo of the St.-Anna-Hof ballroom, Wiener Ballhausgesellschaft, around 1920

At the end of May 1924, after Heinrich Eisenbach's death, the ensemble had to give up the venue in Annagasse. As early as November 1923, there had been reports of a planned trial against the Wiener Ballhausgesellschaft, which owned the pub. The appeal to tenant protection was unsuccessful in court, as there was only a lease agreement. In February 1924, the tenants at the time expressed their disappointment at the impending eviction in a newspaper interview. They complained that there was no other place to be found in Vienna, and that the staff - 15 artists and 15 other employees - were hit harder by the resignation than they, as writers, whose over one hundred plays are even staged in America. Guest performances from abroad (Czechoslovakia, Holland and America) are available.

Corner of Kärntner Straße / Annagasse with billboards for the Tabarin and the Chapeau Rouge Bar, around 1925

After the ensemble moved out in 1924, the short-lived Robert Stolz stage opened in Annagasse . In autumn 1928 one could read in the newspapers about the planned reopening of the theater in Annagasse. Where Grünbaum and Wiesner had run the boulevard theater for a year , an ensemble in the style of Max & Moritz should now move in again. The planned engagement of the Budapest comedian Sándor Rott ensured a response in the press. Armin Berg's participation in the project was clear from the start. Further complications seemed to be the outstanding payments to the stagehands and the fear of the police department that the theater would soon run into financial difficulties again. Finally, doubts about the opening were resolved by an open letter from Director Adolf Brett. He explained that "as the owner of the stage, which last season was known as the Boulevard Theater, I will open it on November 3rd as the Theater of Comedians ."

In 1933 Sándor Rott acted as director of the theater. In the course of the autumn he was repeatedly asked to remove various defects in the location, which it apparently did not manage. On December 7th, the magistrate wrote: "Both the orders of the aforementioned notices, which were not fulfilled despite repeated warnings, and the new order must be complied with immediately, otherwise the criminal offense would have to be initiated against you." As Rott the demands at the end of the month, he was given a final deadline and notified that legal action had already been taken. On January 8, 1934 at the latest, the Theater der Komiker closed its operations due to economic difficulties.

The restaurants located in Annahof were called Monte , Tenne , Take Five , Wiener Wald . The later Take Five was then called Wintergarten and then later Playboy Club . The Tabarin had after 1938 his name - according to the language rules at the "Third Reich" - in Triumph Tanzpalast change. Swing singer Fratelli Sereno played there. Horst Winter , whom the chaos of war had brought to Vienna, began to set up a big band at the end of 1945, which later became the famous Vienna Dance Orchestra (WTO). Winter then performed alongside soldiers' clubs in triumph .

After 1945

Melodies Bar in St. Anna Hof (around 1950)
Playboy Club (ca.1960)
Stucco ceiling in Annagasse 3

In the 1950s, the Melodies Bar was built at the former location of Max & Moritz . There, among other things, played Maxi Böhm , Wiener Hugo and Cissy Kraner .

The swing trio Danzinger could be heard in the Sansibar , later the bar was called Adebar and was a meeting place for jazz fans. Today the Wienerwald restaurant is located there .

In the 1950s, among other things, fashion shows for “stronger women” took place in the Tabrin premises . In 1955 the jazz musician Fatty George opened his restaurant in the Tabarin Bar , the Fatty's Jazz Casino . His merit lies in conveying mainstream jazz in a country in which “un-German” music and music from the United States were banned during the Nazi regime. His records - the first was made in 1954 - made a major contribution to this, as did his appearances in 1977 on his own television program "Fatty live" produced by ORF.

At the end of the 1950s, Niki Czernin, Alfi Windisch-Graetz and Thomas Hörbiger founded the Playboy Club , one of the first discos in Vienna. 1,962 of Barlokals was in the basement Playboy Club , the dance hall Playboy subject to regulatory approval. After two more owners joined the establishment, the name was changed to Take Five . In 2014 the dance hall was closed.

In 1963 the Austrian pop band " Bambis " ran the restaurant on Annagasse. Her two greatest successes were "Melancholie" and "Nur ein Bild von Dir", with which she took places in the charts in 1964 and 1965. At that time the Tabarin was renamed to Tenne . At that time, even those (again in the meantime removed) concrete ceiling was added, the grand fin de siècle - stucco hid in the ceiling.

Since the division of the large pub into several smaller, independent eateries, there have been several tenants in the premises of what would later become the Monte disco - in Tabarin times it was the entrance area to the large dance hall. The restaurant was called Little Tabarin , Playboy , C3 , Spiegel , Monte Nuovo , Montevideo , and Monte , among others . From the 1980s to the middle of 2001, the Montevideo or Monte pub was a popular meeting place in Vienna and, along with Take Five, was one of the classiest discos in Vienna. The doorman and scene photographer Conny de Beauclair began his career in this establishment in the 1980s.

In 2001 there was a change of tenants and the reorientation towards a young audience. However, the renovation and the new concept were not accepted, and so the restaurant had to close after a few unfortunate attempts. In 2004 the threshing floor also closed its doors. After an extensive renovation, the fast food chain Burgerking moved into the premises.

In the years 2008 to 2010 in the basement - below the former Tabarin - the large hall with the furnishings from 1910 was faithfully renovated by "Art & Style", now houses a shoe shop and can be visited during business hours. Otto Prutscher's exotic wallpapers have been restored.

Web links

Commons : St.-Anna-Hof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Annagasse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. alte-heimat-zuckmantel.de ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alte-heimat-zuckmantel.de
  2. austria-lexikon.at
  3. stephanscom.at
  4. courios.at
  5. akbild.ac.at
  6. filmarchiv.at ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / filmarchiv.at
  7. Hans Veigl : Laughing in the cellar: from the Budapesters to Wiener Werkel: cabaret and cabaret in Vienna. Löcker Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-85409-086-2 , p. 93.
  8. derstandard.at
  9. Hans Moser's debut location: theater and ballroom rediscovered. In: Wiener Zeitung Online. March 25.2013.
  10. a b c d e f Simon Usaty: Tempora O Zores. The Austrian-Jewish cabaret artist Armin Berg. Thesis . University of Vienna, 2008. (PDF; 3.3 MB)
  11. ^ Klaus Schulz: Jazz in Austria 1920–1960. Verlag Album, 2003, p. 40.
  12. ^ Andreas Merighi: Change in the musical taste of the Austrian youth from 1900 to 1950. GRIN Verlag, p. 133.
  13. ^ Hugo Wiener: Zeitensprünge: Memories of an old youth. Amalthea Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-85002-317-6 , p. 245.
  14. Georg Markus : Aunt Jolesch's grandchildren. Verlag Amalthea, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85002-466-0 , p. 60
  15. Marcel Atze , Hermann Böhm: When do you organize your books? The HC Artmann library. Verlag Sonderzahl, 2006, p. 223.
  16. ^ Herbert Zeman , Walter Zettl: The 20th Century. (= History of Literature in Austria. Volume 7). Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1999, ISBN 3-201-01687-X , p. 584.
  17. Hubert Fichte: The second guilt: glosses. (= History of Sensitivity. Volume 3). Verlag Fischer, 2006, ISBN 3-10-020751-3 , p. 88.
  18. Austrian National Library: fashion show for 'strong women'
  19. ^ Andreas Merighi: Change in the musical taste of the Austrian youth from 1900 to 1950. GRIN Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-68520-7 , p. 135.
  20. The Internet Magazine: Johnny Parth: How It All Began!
  21. Georg Markus: The Hörbigers: Biography of a Family. Amalthea Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-85002-565-9 , p. 284.
  22. diepresse.com
  23. christianreder.net
  24. Michael Omasta, Olaf Möller, John Cook: John Cook: Viennese by choice, filmmaker by profession. Publishing house SYNEMA - Society for Film and Media, 2006, ISBN 3-901644-17-2 , p. 75.
  25. Information and pictures about Annagasse on der-melzer.blog.de ( Memento from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  26. Ruprechtsviertel: THE STORY OF THE “BERMUDA TRIANGLE” ( memento of the original from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruprechtsviertel.at
  27. Wien.at: Honoring Vienna's best “doorman” and “landlord”: Conny de Beauclair and Herbert Molin
  28. Martin W. Drexler: Idealzone Vienna: the fast years. Verlag Falter, 1998, ISBN 3-85439-224-9 , p. 43ff.
  29. Thomas Mally, Robert Schediwy: Searching for traces in Vienna: narrating lost places. LIT Verlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-7000-0693-0 , p. 86.
  30. Federal Monuments Office: Exotic: Boulevard in the basement! Cellar theater in the Annahof
  31. Photos from the reconstruction of the basement at Art & Style, Vienna ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-and-style.eu

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 16.5 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 17.8 ″  E